Sting: Beyond The Police

The personal life and professional career of music superstar Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner, universally known as Sting, who became passionate about music at a very early age and founded the trio The Police in 1977 with Stewart Copeland and Andy Summers, achieving an immediate success.

The Life and Death of Lily Savage

Intimate documentary exploring how Paul O'Grady's creation, Lily Savage, took mainstream TV by storm. Unravel the real story of Lily with insights from Paul's daughter and famous pals.

Paul McCartney At The BBC

A compilation of TV appearances from the post-Beatles career of Britain’s most successful singer-songwriter. This playlist shows how the Fab Four’s split didn’t stop the hits and features some of Paul McCartney’s most popular songs and iconic performances on some of the biggest BBC shows of the past five decades, from Top of the Pops to the Electric Proms. Alongside tracks like Band on the Run, Jet, Coming Up and Live and Let Die, there is rarely seen backstage footage, interviews and a range of familiar faces, including a recent encounter w...

Tales of Television Centre

Various actors, presenters, directors and other staff who have worked at the iconic BBC Television Centre at Shepherd's Bush in London reminisce about their time there.

The Laughing Prisoner

A funny remake of "The Prisoner" - with a 1980's twist to it 'The Laughing Prisoner' is a remake (or homage) of (to) the Kafkaesque 1960's television show 'The Prisoner' with Patrick McGoohan in the lead role. This time it is a successful television presenter (Jools Holland) who decides to quit at the height of his stardom. He is abducted from his apartment and brought to the village, where number 2 (a young Stephen Fry) is questioning him. The whole show has a cosy 1980's feel to it, with several bands from that period performing their music.

Lucy Worsley's Fireworks for a Tudor Queen

Historian Lucy Worsley teams up with artist and materials scientist Zoe Laughlin to explore the explosive science and fascinating history of fireworks, using an original pyrotechnics instruction manual, and other 400-year-old historical documents, to recreate one of the most spectacular fireworks displays from the Tudor era.

Piano Greats at the BBC

A collection of songs from the kings and queens of the keyboards, whose performances have captivated audiences over the decades and across a selection of the BBC’s best-loved music programmes. From piano pioneers like Little Richard, Nina Simone and Ray Charles, who showed the world that the new sounds of pop and rock didn’t just revolve around guitars, right through to modern maestros like Elton John, Lady Gaga and the BBC’s own Jools Holland, these are the big names who got us tapping our feet by letting their fingers do the talking.

Fry and Laurie Reunited

Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie reunite for a TV special to mark the 30th anniversary of their partnership.

Dancing Through the Blitz: Blackpool's Big Band Story

The three presenters show how Blackpool stayed open as there were several thousand servicemen and women billeted here during WW2. Morale was important to the war effort.

Squeeze: Greatest Hits

Contains classic videos for 15 of Squeeze's 23 UK hit singles. Tracklist 1 Take Me, I'm Yours 2 Cool For Cats 3 Up The Junction 4 Another Nail In My Heart 5 Pulling Mussels (From The Shell) 6 Is That Love 7 Messed Around 8 Tempted 9 Black Coffee In Bed 10 Loves Crashing Waves 11 853 5937 12 Hits Of The Year 13 Last Time Forever 14 Hourglass 15 Trust Me To Open My Mouth 16 Footprints 17 If It's Love

Later... with Jools Holland: Even Louder

More than a decade of rock performances from the BBC's Later... With Jools Holland are collected in this release from Warner Music Vision. Among the songs included in Later... With Jools Holland: Even Louder are "American Idiot" by Green Day, "Sweet 'n' Sour" by The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, "Drunken Butterfly" by Sonic Youth, and many others.

Björk: Later 1995-2011

“Later 1995-2011” features performances of Björk on The Jools Holland Show.